What's the difference between dardanelles and hellespont?
Dardanelles
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(1) It’s not like the millions of dollars that have been spent against me by outside groups are as pure and clean as the wind-driven snow.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Republican challenger Tom Cotton runs a 5k race in Dardanelle, Arkansas.
(2) Tapsell said: “Does [the prime minister] fully recognise the contrast in efficiency between the inquiries into the Crimean war and the Dardanelles campaign when compared with the disgraceful incompetence of the Chilcot enquiry into widely held suspicions that Mr Blair conspired with President George W Bush several months before March 2003 and then systematically sought to falsify the evidence on which that action was taken?” Cameron replied: “I bow to the Father of the House’s knowledge about these previous enquiries.
(3) The protesters found the 52,000-tonne semi-submersible platform Leiv Eiriksson at around midnight, steaming due west at a stately six knots in the sea of Marmara, heading for the Dardanelle straits and the open Mediterranean.
(4) Around 87,000 Ottoman Turkish troops also lost their lives defending the narrow strip of land that guards the western shore of the Dardanelles strait, while at least 300,000 on both sides were seriously wounded.
(5) Gallipoli was the brainchild of Winston Churchill – then First Lord of the Admiralty – in early 1915, with the aim of breaking the deadlock on the Western Front by opening up the heavily mined Dardanelles, seizing Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and linking up with Russia to knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war.
(6) The government still tries to prime the pump with mega-construction projects including a third bridge across the Bosphorus, a bridge bypassing Istanbul from Thrace across the Dardanelles, and yet another bridge across the Sea of Marmara.
(7) It’s not bad, and it’s good in government, and good in politics,” Cotton told the Guardian when asked why he had changed his mind, after finishing a 5,000m race in his home town of Dardanelle at 7 that morning.
(8) Frankly, my views on the Iraq war are well known and I want this inquiry published.” Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House of Commons, who once served as an adviser to the late prime minister Sir Anthony Eden whose time in Downing Street was cut short by the Suez Crisis in 1956, said that the Iraq inquiry has taken longer than those into the Crimean war and the Dardanelles campaign in the first world war.
(9) He demanded a base in the Dardanelles and territories in eastern Turkey .
(10) This autumn has been the economic equivalent of the Dardanelles.
(11) When the 27-year-old author of “If I should die, think only this of me” eerily fulfilled his own epitaph and succumbed to septicaemia as he waited to join the invasion of the Dardanelles, the poet was made a Byronic figure of enchantment.
(12) Are there not other alternatives,” the man destined to be Britain’s second world war saviour inquired, “than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?” The plan was to open up the Dardanelles straits, heavily mined and ably defended on its western shore by Turkish coastal forts and gun batteries on the 50-mile-long Gallipoli peninsula, to allied ships, capture Constantinople – present-day Istanbul – and so link up with Russia, knocking Germany’s ally, Ottoman Turkey, out of the conflict.
(13) In a TV ad the campaign released in May, Cotton and Anna Peckham , his wife since March, arrange flowers outside the house in Dardanelle he inherited from his family.
Hellespont
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(n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
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(1) Only later did I read Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander that begins: "On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood..." Twombly came of agein the America of Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists.